Re: May you please add alias for nslookup?

From: Mark Felder <feld_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 12:40:56 -0500
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013, at 11:34, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> RW wrote:
> > On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 10:44:56 +0200
> > Ivan Voras wrote:
> > 
> > > explaning the user what has happened and optionally invoking "host"
> > > or "dig".
> > 
> > Actually dig has gone 
> 
> Rather cryptic for me so I looked:
> 
> dig has gone from current src/usr.bin/dig 
> nslookup & dig & host 
> are all installed by either of current
> ports/dns/bind99 or ports/dns/bind-tools 
> 
> 
> > and has been replaced by the unbound utility
> > drill. 
> 
> src/usr.bin/drill/
> 
> 
> I agree with O.P. Zhifeng Hu's "this is a very basic tools".
> 
> Removing src/contrib/bind9 from FreeBSD-10 will get criticised as:
>  "Calls itself a server OS, but no name server out of the box!"
> 
> Please resist periodic urges to strip src/ towards just a tool set
> capable of rebuilding itself.  Tossing expected tools (even if a
> port is more up to date & secure) will annoy users, & potential
> immigrants from other Unixes may try then toss FreeBSD.
> 
> Cheers,
> Julian
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I don't think anyone can explain this better than the last post DES put
on his blog about it

http://blog.des.no/2013/09/dns-again-a-clarification/
Received on Sat Oct 12 2013 - 15:41:04 UTC

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